For the cover of Snoop Dogg’s 11th solo album, Doggumentary, he takes a back seat and leaves his chair vacant. Better watch the throne, nephew. Album drops March 29th.

Maino shot his new video for “We Keep It Rockin” at club Amnesia in NYC yesterday evening. NigelD’s camera was there and filmed what went down.

Later today, Cons will finally get to premiere his Movies On Demand 2 over at XXL, but until then, grab a seat and check out a preview of what’s in store with its latest leak.

With today marking the 11th anniversary of Big Pun’s death, Angie Mar dug in her archives and found an old interview with Big Pun and N.O.R.E. on Hot 97. Pun talks about being nominated for a Grammy and wanting to be the first rapper to release a quadruple album. Ha! Rest In Peace, Punisher. Hearing the two artists trade jokes over a crackling terrestrial broadcast offers a sharp contrast to the highly monetized ways hip-hop figures control their own platforms […]

[vodpod id=Video.5527328&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] My wife, Danyel Smith chops it up with four of Atlantic Records’ most promising acts for the label’s new web series.

[vodpod id=Video.5527084&w=425&h=350&fv=] For the entire month of February, FUSE has given Jim Jones his own On Demand channel. Here’s one of the promo clips of him giving out free New York City taxi cab rides. If all goes well, Capo could possibly land his own show on the network.

[vodpod id=Video.5526799&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Backed up by their band, Curtis and his G-Note Records artist Governor give their recent track the visual treatment. Safe to say these two make beautiful music, but here we go again with the Sleek promo.

It’s been awhile since we heard Pill and an unreleased track has made its way on the Internet. Its all good though. Lex Luger on the beat by the way. uhtn

With No I.D. on the track, here’s the first single from Big Sean’s major label debut, Finally Famous: The Album. According to Def Jam, the project is slated to be released next month. Yeah, boi.

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